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One can mention a handwriting analyst, with modern courtroom experience, IIRC, who says one thing or mention another analyst, with extensive experience in historical hands, who says quite another thing. Or wonder if Smith had an assistant--or a scribal teacher. One can recall that some think Smith w...

An interview with Eibert Tigchelaar, "Fake Dead Sea Scrolls Explained," may interest some: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqAsE0zyV8s A minor correction: at 49:25ff the interviewer brings up a 20th-century forgery of a Jerusalem Talmud order; he said he thinks it was Nashim; he probably meant to sa...

Comments on Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls (T. & T. Clark, 2019, G. Brooke and C. Hempel, eds.) I recommend this book for university libraries (I requested it for Duke). It is rather well edited and offers 75 mostly-fine chapters. The volume provides a good opportunity to survey a wide swath of c...

The 2018 issue of the Journal of the Jesus Movement in its Jewish Setting is now available. Online, open source, peer-reviewed. Plus comment forum. Spread the word.

http://www.jjmjs.org/

Two related pages on the tests on MOTB mss: https://www.bam.de/Content/EN/Press-Releases/2018/AnalyticalSciences/2018-10-26-bam-research-dead-sea-scrolls-museum-of-the-bible.html https://www.bam.de/Content/EN/Standard-Articles/News/Special-pages/analysis-dead-sea-scrolls-fragments-museum-of-the-bibl...

Title: Breaking the Dead Sea Scrolls Monopoly: A New Interpretation of the Messianic Movement in Palestine (2018) amazon/kindle and pb. The first part gives his version of the history toward open access of the DSS. One item of interest is that he names Robert Schlosser as the photographer who suppli...

Ha'aretz Oct. 14, 2018 reports that archaeologists dated some violently killed people to the reign of Alexander Jannaeus. In a leap, they called the skeletons Pharisees; they might indeed be Pharisees, but bones per se don't reveal that. What is more reinforced is that King Jannaeus, who was reporte...

We've been around on this before. Without wishing to rehash at the moment, fwiw, I still hold what I wrote in "Nazarenes" in Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992). I consider the Jesus as Nazirite interpretation unlikely.

"...saw him eating." Physical?